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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ogicse!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!msuinfo!uchinews!cdsmail!aquarius1.cim.cdc.com!rgr From: rgr@aquarius1.cim.cdc.com (Greg Rowe x2699) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: PROBLEMS WITH FreeBSD Message-ID: <CJ47F2.10H@cdsmail.cdc.com> Date: 4 Jan 94 17:04:13 GMT Article-I.D.: cdsmail.CJ47F2.10H References: <CIq8w7.7rM@csi.compuserve.com> <STARK!GENE.93Dec28074153@stark.uucp> Sender: usenet@cdsmail.cdc.com (News Poster) Reply-To: rgr@aquarius1.cim.cdc.com (Greg Rowe x2699) Organization: Control Data Systems Lines: 45 In article <STARK!GENE.93Dec28074153@stark.uucp>, stark!gene@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) writes: |> mfoley@csi.compuserv.com (M Foley) writes: |> |> > The following are some of the misc. problems I have experienced |> > installing FreeBSD 1.0e. If anyone has advice or insight, I would |> > appreciate a mail message as I no long have ready access to these news |> > groups. ||> > 6. When compiling bash, and about 20 times when making a new kernel, the |> > make stopped with: |> > |> > cc: Internal compiler error: program gcc1 got fatal signal 11 |> > |> > Restarting the make would resume at the right place and continue for |> > a few more programs before stopping again. Finally, I disengaged turbo |> > mode (front panel switch), and the kernel make seemed to proceed without |> > problems. I have had a number of flakey problems like this (see next item) |> > which seem to have gone away without turbo. I hope this is not a |> > permanent problem since I am now running as a 386/16 rather than a 386/25. |> |> This is symptomatic of bad external cache hardware. Try disabling your |> external cache from the BIOS setup screen, and see how many of the above |> problems go away. If the problems cease, then have a look at the markings |> on your cache chips to see if they are fast enough. If not, replace them. |> If so, then you probably have a crummy motherboard, and the only fix would |> be to get a better one. | |> - Gene Stark |> |> -- Interesting....After a year of running 386BSD in a "production" environment, I decided it was time to upgrade to FreeBSD. To lessen the impact on the users, I put together a new 386-40 and installed FreeBSD from scratch. I am also experiencing the same errors on compiles. Anything of any size (perl, kernel, etc...), I need to keep restarting the make's until I get a clean build. I get Bus errors, Internal compiler errors, and occasional core dumps/system c crashes. The rest of the system runs fine. I only have the problem during compiles. My hardware specifics are as follows: 386-40 (Mother Board is a 3/486 OPTI-495 SX Cache) AMD CPU and 256k Cache. 8 meg memory (Replaced the memory to see if that was causing the problem) IIT Math CoProcessor (Took that out to see if it was causing the problem) Adaptec 1542B SCSI Controller SMC Elite Ethernet Card (Used all the recommended settings for the SMC and Adaptec Cards) I haven't tried disabling cache or running at a slower CPU speed yet, but that's not really a good option. I have checked and rechecked all my board and BIOS settings though. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Greg Rowe